You are right in being patient. Your bike will come. Keep looking, enjoy the chase

Unfortunately it's hi ten. I have Korean hi ten that I love but I got frame/fork/wheels for free.

My Univega Super Special was right up there with my Pinarello Record, but it had Tange Champion tubing.

Hi ten (high tensile or 1080) steel ("gas pipe steel") is the most basic quality of steel used on older bikes. It's still fine - I commuted for 14 years on a high-tensile Panasonic bike. Better quality bikes had higher quality steel: eg. "cromoly", "4130", "Reynolds 531", that is somewhat stronger and hence could be made a bit lighter.

She's looking to get around, not win the TdF. This looks like a solid frame, not like the Montgomery Ward 10 speed that I got in college. The MW had it's down tube separate from the bottom bracket two weeks after I started riding it. For the price point, the Shogun is okay.

The occasional "help the damsel in distress" posts aren't any better or worse than the constant posts "I'm starting to commute help me pick a bike" or "what do you think of my cool new accessory."

They are the same. Keeps those who enjoy these repetitious threads busy providing their expert advice over and over again.

Slow day over in A&S eh?

I like to bike likes to bike but doesn't like anything else

I see that now, too. The closet door detail is a straight line but that top tube is most definitely not straight! That fork still looks closer to vert than the HT/stem. Don't see bent forks and bent frame at the same time that often, usually it's just one or the other

I got no problems with decent HiTen, but wrecked Hi-Ten sucks.

This Schwinn comes closer to fitting someone that's 5'6", has DT shifters, likely indexed, direct mount rear derailleur, a full complement of bar tape and other niceties, well worth the extra money.

I agree. You could even go as high as the asking price, based on your budget of $100 to $200 in another thread. That is, if the bike seems in good shape, brakes (not breaks) work fine, wheels are true, cables and housing look good (not frayed at the ends and no kinks), it shifts fine, and the tires look decent. And if it fits.

And look at the red Schwinn too.

Its always busy here with the threads as previously mentioned; occasionally there is one here that causes me to rise to the bait.
Bottom lines are:
Specific bikes on Craigslist will be sold if they are good buys long before an indecisive poster can ever get enough advice to enable her to "pull the trigger".

Garages and basements are filled with unused bikes owned by people who thought buying a bike with more gears or lighter or from a "better" source would somehow magically flatten hills for them that their previous "heavy" bike could not.

Asking over and over again about this bike or that is not going to change the advice given early on to this poster and numerous others in the past. Get a little practice on your commute with your current bike "heavy" or not, gain a little experience, a bike afew pounds lighter is hardly going to make much difference on a commuter bike.

Advice on what to buy from strangers is going to be all over the map and more than likely make a purchase more difficult for an indecisive person. No bike will be "ultimate" or "perfect" enough, especially on a rock bottom budget.

and gives you plenty of fodder for your predictable comments too, so it's win/win!

Yep, the Shogun has definitely been crashed into something. I didn't even notice that myself when I first looked at that picture...It just shows how important it is to slow down and pay closer attention and look it over in greater detail.

Difficult to draw exact lines on such a picture with such muddy edges, but here's what I get:



Only half a degree, though some of that is likely due to the fact that edge detection didn't work too great here and I had to eyeball em.

Top tube looks like it may be a bit buckled:




Gotta do something on my coffee break

That cracks me up, but it should be noted the wheels are sitting at different points on the floor if the tile line can be trusted, suggesting the bike is set at a slant already, then factor in the height of the two doors behind it appears to be off from one another.. and I think we're all just guestimating.

Hey, what about this schwinn traveler ??.

1980 Red Schwinn Traveler 10 speed, new tires, rdy 2 ride!

True, though one should still be able to see a difference in angle of the head tube and fork even if the perspective isn't perfect. Then again, the side of the fork may not be meant to be perfectly parallel to the headtube. Perhaps I'm guesstimating too hard

Lol a woman looking for a bike gets all kinds of attention around here. Three pages of advice including diagrams with frame angles on a $70 bike. You guys have really outdone yourselves.

Has nothing to do with gender, people just need stuff to do on their breaks My fiance doesn't appreciate your implication

Bummer. The Miyata is a better quality bike by far than the Shogun you posted. If you could scrape the money together it's worth the asking price in my opinion, even if it turns out to need a little work.

It's not just about her, although I hope it helps her. It's also a fun discussion about bikes.

☝☝This.
I never respond to "new commuter" type threads because I don't know anything about newer bikes.
If a thread arises that blubbering on about old stuff and commuting is appropriate, I am going to enjoy that short moment